what makes good design?

cardiff design festival

this year, i've put together a digital exhibition for this year's festival and will be uploading it on to here probably friday (so keep an eye out for it) after the opening on thursday eve. if you're around cardiff, come along to milgi, city road - it will be a good event.

bubble, burst

it is wedding season at the minute and my third was this week. i felt adventurous and decided to make a statement head-piece = an origami cube, made out of beautiful paper (in a colour, complementing my homemade dress) and placed, nestling in my hair.

stood outside the church waiting to go in, a tramp inquired as to why i had a cardboard box on my head. yep. i know what you're thinking, he probably fancied it for himself but that just totally killed it for me. hilarious. i guess the origami swan medallion i made will have to wait...

so today, catching up on some of my favourite blogs, i saw these images from LAMagazine of a shoot by Billy Kidd (full spread here - http://www.lagmagazine.com/beauty/editorial.php?uid=nWqKCt7i58nq7X1pr4G0) on susie bubble's http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/. beautiful, and totally the look i was going for, although perhaps not so full-on.

also, interestingly, spotted these paper shoes on another favourite, http://www.highsnobette.com/ of work by ndeur, (http://ndeur.wordpress.com/), a leg of the le creativ sweatshop, as part of 'ndeur + make a paper world'. good good stuff.

the use of a material out of it's usual and in an unexpected form is always fascinating. and of course, shoes just make my day. more on this juxtaposition, i promise.